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[!summary]The author used Claude with an MCP filesystem server to search and fix a huge Obsidian vault. Claude helped automate searches, convert metadata, and run scripts to reorganize notes quickly. This solved long-standing organizational problems and made the vault much more useful.
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id990027206
The main advantages of Obsidian over other tools are that it is fast and that it works offline. Linking is useful but honestly secondary. And the thing about working from search results is that having one extra isn’t a disadvantage; rather, having the file name of my claim and the book show up in the search menu saves me a click. The thing about markdown files being lightweight is that having multiple copies of the same information doesn’t slow anything down.
No me es evidente por quĂ© se podrĂa prescindir de la funciĂłn de enlaces sin perder algo potente de la experiencia de Obsidian.
id990027310
These days, I duplicate data all the time. I let my article drafts sit right next to the clean copies imported from Substack instead of deleting one in the name of tidiness. After I finish processing a collection of quotes and comments on an article or book, I move it into my “annotated information” folder and then let Readwise sync a brand new copy. I optimize for ease of recording and ease of retrieval, not tidiness. And yet, Claude has helped me get my notes tidier than they ever were.
AquĂ hay una soluciĂłn al problema de la capa intermedia de procesar las notas de Readwise antes de crear notas atĂłmicas asociadas.
id990028218
The only article I’ve ever written that went viral was my 2021 piece Yet Another Hot Take on Folders vs. Tags, which made it to the front page of Hacker News and kicked off with the observation that most software I use wasn’t created in the 2020s, and interfaces pretty poorly with a tag-based system of organization. The main thing that irritated me was when I saw people saying that folders are “old-fashioned” and therefore “pointless.” The fact that they’re old-fashioned is one of the big reasons why they’re valuable: more programs, especially at the lower levels of the file system that I prefer interacting with, support and extend their use.
Las carpetas son Ăştiles porque son una soluciĂłn antigua, y eso las hace robustas y compatibles.